Robert J. Sawyer





Robert J. Sawyer

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April 29, 1960 in Ottawa, Canada

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Robert J. Sawyer is one of Canada's best known and most successful science fiction writers. He is the only Canadian (and one of only 7 writers in the world) to have won all three of the top international awards for science fiction: the 1995 Nebula Award for The Terminal Experiment, the 2003 Hugo Award for Hominids, and the 2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Mindscan.
Robert Sawyer grew up in Toronto, the son of two university professors. He credits two of his favourite shows from the late 1960s and early 1970s, Search and Star Trek, with teaching him some of the fundamentals of the science-fiction craft. Sawyer was obsessed with outer space from a young age, and he vividly remembers watching the televised Apollo missions. He claims to...more


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Financial Times — The Financial Times of London, one of the most-read newspapers in the world — just reviewed my novel Triggers. It’s a short but sweet review, but wonderfully quotable:

“It’s a national security nightmare — someone has access to the secrets lodged in the brain of the most powerful man in the world. There’s lots of fascinating stuff here about how human memory works, and Sawyer...
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Average rating: 3.74 · 23,763 ratings · 2,799 reviews · 73 distinct works
Flashforward
3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 4,080 ratings — published 1999 — 30 editions
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Hominids (Neanderthal Paral...
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 2,660 ratings — published 2002 — 14 editions
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Calculating God
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 2,042 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions
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WWW: Wake (WWW, #1)
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 2,090 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions
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Humans (Neanderthal Paralla...
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 1,474 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions
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Hybrids (Neanderthal Parall...
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 1,262 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions
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WWW: Watch (WWW, #2)
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1,156 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions
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Rollback
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 1,098 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions
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The Terminal Experiment
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 800 ratings — published 1995 — 13 editions
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WWW: Wonder (WWW, #3)
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 774 ratings — published 2011 — 15 editions
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More books by Robert J. Sawyer…
Hominids Humans Hybrids
Neanderthal Parallax (3 books)
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3.7284522706209455 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 5,395 ratings
WWW: Wake WWW: Watch WWW: Wonder
WWW (3 books)
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3.867214748380668 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 4,014 ratings
Far-Seer Fossil Hunter Foreigner
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 651 ratings

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“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

“There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?”
Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

“Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.”
Robert J. Sawyer, Flashforward

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January Science Fiction: This poll determines which 2 novels will move on to the run-off poll for January 2010 SF Book of the Month!

 
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